Improvement in door-checks



BEIGE.

ATENT GEORGE BURT, OF DENVER, COLORADO TERRITORY.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOOR-CHECKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,21 7, dated April 20, 1875; application tiled March 13, 1875.

To all whom fit may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE BURT, of Denver, in the county of Arapahoe, in the Territory of Colorado, have invented cert-ain Improvements in Door-Fasteners, ot' which the following is a specification:

The object ot' my invention is to securely fasten chamber or other doors upon the inside by attaching the pocket door-fastener herein described, and which is made of brass or other metal, to the jamb and edge ofthe door; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter inorefully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a plan view, showing the hookend plate partly out of the jaws; and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are detail views in various positions.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents a plate, terminating at one end in the curved hook B. This pla-te works upon the rivet D in the slitted jaw O. This jaw is made so as to present a surface or shoulder broad enough to catch and hold the door upon either side. Attached to itis a hinged bolt, E, opening` outward, but which, when closed, goes through an orice in the jaw and in the plate, so as to fasten the plate securely in its place, which, as will be seen, is especially necessary when placed upon a door opening from right to left, the jaw not then being retained in its place by its own weight, and makes it more trxn and secure when placed upon a door opening from left to right.

I claim as my invention- The hinged bolt E, in combination with and passing' through the jaw O and the plate A, which plate works upon the rivet D, and terminates in a curved hook, B, all substantially as described and shown, for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

GEORGE BURT.

Witnesses:

J As. G. WHITALL, SAM S. LANDON. 

